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The Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute captured footage of a giant phantom jelly with ribbon-like arms over 30 feet ...

To survive the deep ocean, sea creatures need all kinds of adaptations that give them alien-like appearances, like huge eyes ...

Researchers have discovered a new species of glowing sea slug deep in the ocean’s midnight zone. Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute (MBARI) scientists said in a press release on Tuesday ...

were sitting in the control room for their deep-diving remotely operated vehicle when they saw a bizarre creature swimming in the midnight zone of the ocean. "We were looking around at each other ...

This places the species firmly in the midnight or bathypelagic zone, which is a pitch-black section of the deep ocean between 3,300 and 13,100 feet below the surface. The strange creature is see ...

These unusual features and behaviors are likely the result of its unique environment, deep below the surface in what's called the ocean's "midnight zone." "Almost every aspect of Bathydevius ...

This particular nudibranch is the first known to live in the deep water column—the ocean’s midnight zone—between 3,300 feet and 13,100 feet deep (1,000 to 4,000 meters). But the most ...

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The midnight zone is cold and dark and very forbidding ... the world where we have taken this new technology into the deep ocean, allowing us to study the luminous behavior of deep-sea animals ...